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Daily Help
God makes no difference in His love to His children. A child is a child to Him; He will not make him a hired servant; but he shall feast upon the fatted calf, and shall have the music and the dancing as much as if he had never gone astray.Read More …
Streams in the Desert
“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.” (Phil. 3:7.) WHEN they buried the blind preacher, George Matheson, they lined his grave with red roses in memory of his love-life of sacrifice. And it was this man, so beautifully and significantly honored, who wrote, Read More …
Tempted by Shortcuts
Tempted by Shortcuts Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you. Let me thrust the spear through him into the ground just once. I won’t [have to strike] him twice!”—1 Samuel 26:8 You will sometimes be tempted to take shortcuts to your destinations inRead More …
Daily Help
“Ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit.“—Romans 8:23. But the first fruits were not the harvest, and the works of the Spirit in us at this moment, are not the consummation—the perfection is yet to come. We must not boast that we have attained, and so reckonRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“As many as I love I rebuke and chasten.” (Rev. 3:19.) GOD takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saintRead More …
Don’t Avoid the Impossible
Don’t Avoid the Impossible “They don’t need to go away,” Jesus told them. “You give them something to eat.”—Matthew 14:16 Jesus asked His disciples to do something that clearly was impossible. There were five thousand men, along with their families, and they were famished. There were only five loaves ofRead More …
Daily Help
Though we have brought forth some fruit unto Christ, and have a joyful hope that we are “plants of His own right hand planting,” yet there are times when we feel very barren. Prayer is lifeless, love is cold, faith is weak, each grace in the garden of our heartRead More …
Streams in the Desert
“Is there anything too hard for Jehovah?” (Gen. 18:14.) HERE is God’s loving challenge to you and to me today. He wants us to think of the deepest, highest, worthiest desire and longing of our hearts, something which perhaps was our desire for ourselves or for someone dear to us,Read More …
Wisdom Justified
Wisdom Justified “Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”—Luke 7:35 The world is full of “experts.” There are people everywhere who want to convince you of the wisdom of their opinion. Yet God says that it is not the one who declares his viewpoint the most loudly or vociferouslyRead More …
Daily Help
For thou art my strength.” What an inexpressible sweetness is to be found in these few words! How joyfully may we encounter toils, and how cheerfully may we endure sufferings, when we can lay hold upon celestial strength. He is a happy man who has such matchless might engaged uponRead More …
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